Saturday, February 07, 2009
Tribune-Herald staff report
Seven Tribune-Herald employees will lose their jobs in a restructuring plan announced Friday.
This layoff of the full-time positions follows reductions of 16 other full-time jobs made during 2008 by shifting employees into new jobs or by eliminating positions vacated through retirements or resignations, Publisher Belinda Gaudet said.
In total, the newspaper workforce is about 11 percent smaller than it was a year ago.
The staff restructuring impacts all major departments at the Trib, which will continue to employ about 215 full- and part-time employees.
“We had hoped to avoid layoffs,” Gaudet said. “It’s with great sadness that we had to eliminate these employees’ positions.”
The employees were offered severance packages based on tenure, said Gaudet, adding that each would receive job placement help by a professional career transition service.
“Unfortunately, this restructuring reflects the business challenges facing some of our advertising customers,” Gaudet said. “We have to operate more efficiently until we get past this period. There are still local indicators that Waco and Central Texas are strong markets.”
Cox Newspapers, which owns the Trib, announced last August that it would sell all of its Texas, North Carolina and Colorado newspapers. That sales process continues. Buyers have not yet been announced.
Comments
By OdoyleRules
Feb 8, 2009 6:01 PM | Link to this
Cecil, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
By WacoTrib.com staff
Feb 8, 2009 2:33 AM | Link to this
Cecil, I don't think that's a supportable assertion.
FYI, Cox currently owns six daily papers in Texas. They can't all be "the most liberal." Likewise, it has holdings in Colorado, North Carolina, Ohio and Georgia, none of which are "in Texas."
By Cecil 1
Feb 7, 2009 10:42 PM | Link to this
If this news paper, went out of business, it would be no great loss to this community, it is the most liberal paper in Texas, as are all the Coxs papers. It does not, and will not support the people, it has and will continue to support the politicans and their inane projects, it has been, and will continue to be in bed with city hall, county commisioners and the school board, oh yes let us not forget the developers, and salemans that come through the town selling their inane ideas, the citizens will never get a bit of truth from it and never will. I do feel for any one that loses their jobs, but it mauy be a good thing for you, find a good paper, one that's interested in the citizens welfare, and doesn't, are isn't afraid to tell the truth, and doesn't mind doing investigative reporting to bring out the truth, this paper will never do that.
By Ratso
Feb 7, 2009 8:22 PM | Link to this
KDF... Nugent doesn't expect everyone to live like him, or believe everything he believes in, but he, as well as you have a right to your own opinion. I also don't judge people if they like to have a few drinks, a cigarette or cigar, or even if they use some "colorful language" at times. There are far worse people out there, and you have to admire a man that isn't afraid to stand up and be heard. I think Ted Nugent is as honest as you are going to find a human being, and that speaks volumes.
By Grady
Feb 7, 2009 7:08 PM | Link to this
as a former employee, I probably know some who were laid off. I'm sorry to hear that.
By KDF
Feb 7, 2009 6:42 PM | Link to this
For many years I thought Ted Nugent was a cool dude. Loved his music, and loved his style. Then I started reading his columns. Some are right on, but others that tell me straight forward how I should live my life have ruined his columns for me. He says don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs. I went to his concert at Hog Creek a year and a half ago. The words out of his mouth were foul, and he was making his money of people there who were drinking and smoking and etc.. <
By Prez E. Dent
Feb 7, 2009 11:07 AM | Link to this
MORE NUGENT!!!!!!
By Ratso
Feb 7, 2009 10:31 AM | Link to this
Nugent Rocks!
By TJ Snodgrass
Feb 7, 2009 10:21 AM | Link to this
Lose Nugent and I'll subscribe...
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